OPAPP+Advertising+Lesson+Plan+Standard+3.2.5


 * The following lesson plan demonstrates that I included a variety of texts, both print and visual within my instruction, and through the parameters of the OPAPP assessment, my students were given the opportunity to critique advertisements in various forms of media for their implicit and explicit messages on a variety of identities such as: race, gender, age, sex etc.


 * Advanced Composition Lesson Plan 4-5-11 OPAPP Day 2 **
 * Standard **: Reading Process: Concepts of Print, Comprehension Strategies and Self-Monitoring Strategies Reading Applications: Informational, Technical and Persuasive Text


 * Benchmark:** A. Analyze the features and structures of documents and critique them for their effectiveness. A. Apply reading comprehension strategies to understand grade appropriate texts
 * Specific Lesson Goal/Link to Assessment**


 * Question: What information will students be tested on from this lesson?** Students will be assessed on their ability to analyze and respond to not only the ads they brought in, but the short reading selections from the night before. They will also be assessed on their participation and contribution to group work and class discussion.


 * Question: How does this link to previous/future learning?** Previously students wrote a response essay about how adolescence are perceived by adults based on a quote from Socrates. That dialogue will continue as we shift our discussion toward the depiction of adolescence in the media. That will be the focus of the unit. Today we open our discussion of adolescence in the media based on brought in student sample ads, and supplied texts from OPAPP. The discussion will continue throughout the unit culminating in a summative essay submitted to the ODE. The students’ final analysis essays of Susan Bordo’s “Unbearable Weight” link to our previous unit on literary analysis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsPvRtQIKG0&feature=related
 * Materials Needed:** Exploring texts hand out, Adolescence and Gender in Advertising hand-out, student ads, ads I bring in, Sample Texts 1-6, Mean Girls clip


 * Instructional Strategies:**


 * Entry:** Last night you were to have completed taking notes on sample texts 1-3. Please take those out so I can check them. Also, take out the advertisements you found last night of teens in the media. We will discuss them in a bit. As I check them, I will put on a clip from the film “Mean Girls.” Using the exploring texts note sheet you used last night, take notes on the film clip in the same way and be prepared to discuss them.
 * Activity:** I check student notes as they watch the “Mean Girls” clip and take notes. Afterward we will have a brief discussion over what sort of messages, identities are found in the clip, and whether or not the clip is an accurate portrayal of adolescence.


 * Transition:** Ok now that we’ve opened our discussion, let’s shift our focus to the ads you brought in. What’d like you to do is to first, take a few minutes to look at your ads, and, just as we did with the sample texts from last night and the “Mean Girls” clip, jot down what identities and messages are present, and whether or not you think your ads are an accurate portrayal. Do that now before we move into our next activity.
 * Activity:** Students brainstorm their thoughts on their ads before breaking into small groups.


 * Transition:** Now that everyone has some thoughts and ideas about their ads, I would like you to break into groups of no more than 5 and discuss your ads. As you go around in the circle sharing and discussing your ads, choose one male and one female ad to share with the class.
 * Activity:** Students will discuss their ads in groups followed by a whole class discussion. I will walk around monitoring groups for on-task behavior and asking students questions.


 * Closure:** We’ve all heard what others have to say about how advertising, movies, etc. depict adolescence. In the time remaining I’m going to pass out the remaining three short texts you must read and take notes on. Please work till the bell in reading these selections, that way your reading is not as intensive tonight. Tomorrow we will pick up with the text we will be using for our analysis and get back in our groups to discuss it.

[|"Mean Girls" Clip]

[|Male Ad]

[|Female Ad]**